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Theater groups plan busy summer of open-air productions
Outdoor summer theater in the Seattle area includes free or low-cost performances of Shakespearean plays, children's stories and Broadway musicals.
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Free lunchtime and after-hours concerts offer something for everyone
Slip on your sunglasses and head outside for free concerts around Seattle. The events include downtown Seattle's Out to Lunch concert series, the Summer Concert Series City Hall PlazaPark, Sounds Outside and more.
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A special Sub Pop edition
Music Wolf Parade When I heard Wolf Parade's recent musical marathon, the brilliantly conceived and recorded "At Mount Zoomer," I realized...
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Local running calendar
New Paltz Summer Cross Country Series Undercliff/Overcliff, July 7, 7 p.m., Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 4.7-mile run at the Mohonk Preserve Undercliff/Overcliff near the metal bridge on Rtes. 44/55. First race in the five-race series. Children's --mile and mile races begin before adult races.
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JONATHAN LESHNOFF
Jonathan Leshnoff has been the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra's composer-in-residence for two years, but his works have been featured every season since 2005. His trombone concerto will be performed in October, and he will have a CD coming out in February, featuring his violin concerto.
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CD: Battleship Potemkin
Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe have survived over twenty years in the music industry by keeping their electronic, disco-pop musical style fresh, constantly evolving and with an intellectual edge that’s often lacking in such a commercial, fickle business.
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Needs a Headline
Festival Hill wrapup The International Festival-Institute at Round Top will conclude its 38th season with four performances Thursday through Saturd ...
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Eden Medical Center to host Run to the Lake
Health fair, live music also part of next Sunday's event
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MUSIC ON TV
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NEW ONSTAGE
OPENINGS A CHORUS LINE The new national tour of Michael Bennett's popular musical about the torments of auditioning for a spot in the chorus returns to the theater where the current Broadway revival premiered two years ago in the Best of Broadway series. Bob...
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Early race leader holds on for ASA win at Motorplex
Preston Peletier won Saturday night's RC Cola/Moon Pie 100 at Music City Motorplex, the seventh race of the season in the ASA Southeast Asphalt Tour.
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Matchmaker for artists, sponsors always looks for the perfect fit
The drop in compact disc sales, combined with a cluttered advertising environment, has brought performers and corporations together in recent years, helping boost the business of music sponsorships to a record $1 billion in 2007.
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Folks feel pinch--and pinch pennies
Skyrocketing gas prices have collided with layoffs, foreclosures and food costs to change the way we live in everyday ways. Meet seven people from the Sacramento region who explore how they are coping in small ways, from choosing omelettes over steak to postponing surgery and taking an extra job. Sacramento piano tuner Antonio Bombal spends about two hours on the road each day, and he ...
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CD REVIEWS: TEDDY THOMPSON
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) The press release quotes Teddy Thompson saying his terrific new CD on Verve Forecast "is a happy record." That advisory was probably needed after his recent country-tinged material that made Morrissey seem like a veritable laugh-riot...
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CD review: 'Adding Machine: A Musical'
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) Elmer Rice's grimly funny 1923 Expressionist drama of wage-slavery is reborn and reinvigorated in composer Joshua Schmidt and co-librettist Jason Loewith's astonishing folk-opera adaptation. A surprise off-Broadway hit from Loewith's...
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CD REVIEWS: HERCULES AND LOVE AFFAIR - Pop
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) If the vocals on a few cuts of Hercules and Love Affair's first full-length CD sound familiar, it's because the pipes belong to Antony Hegarty of Antony and the Johnsons, with whom Hercules' mastermind Andrew Butler composed the song...
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Bayreuth fest to stream premiere performance online
Germany's annual Bayreuth opera festival will show the opening performance of Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg live via the Internet for the first time this month. The catch is the price: 49 euros (U.S. $77).
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Rachid Taha's punk world music
Rachid Taha compares his music to a plate of couscous. Interviewed via translator from his home in France, the 49-year-old Algerian-born singer and global punk icon says he was happy to discover that "Frank Zappa had come to the same conclusion when he said, '...
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The Look Presents at Topman
Topman presents iconic rock fashion for the 21st century (PRWeb Jul 6, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/07/prweb1076594.htm
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DVD review: 'Xanadu: Magical Musical Edition'
RATING: (ALERT VIEWER) "Xanadu" was an epic mess of a movie, and time hasn't done it many favors. But where the gaping plot holes and ridiculous special effects were once difficult to watch, the video is still worth checking out for the enormous...
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SILENT FILM FESTIVAL RESURRECTS HISTORY
The first time Stephen Salmons saw a silent film, his reaction was particularly appropriate. "I was speechless," recalls Salmons, artistic director and co-founder of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, which opens its 13th edition Friday at the Castro...
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GERMANS AND TURKS TOGETHER IN 'HEAVEN'
Filmmaker Fatih Akin speaks fluent English with an accent that is hard to place. That makes sense, given that Akin, the German-born director of the breakthrough film "Head-On" (2004), the music documentary "Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul" (2005)...
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Blue sky for blues festival
For the past seven years, veteran Minneapolis bluesman Big Walter Smith has celebrated his birthday while performing at the Thunder Bay Blues Festival.
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Mark Ronson and Daisy Lowe making sweet music together
Pop supremo Mark Ronson and Daisy Lowe are recording a love song together - taking their relationship to a new (super-cheesy) level.
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THIS WEEK
S MUSIC ALLEN TOUSSAINT Nobody alive defines New Orleans rhythm and blues more than Allen Toussaint, who has written the greatest music and produced the greatest bands to come out of the fated city since World War II. "Working in the Coal Mine," "Sneakin'...
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